Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0

Today we are releasing the final version of Entity Framework Core 2.0, alongside .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0. Entity Framework (EF) Core is the lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the popular Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET. Getting the bits Prerequisites In order to develop .NET Core 2.0 applications (including… Read more

Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance

As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current blog post focuses on “Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance“. Just as a reminder, the four introductory blog posts of this series are… Read more

Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance

As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current blog post focuses on “Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance”. Just as a reminder, the four introductory blog posts of this series will… Read more

.NET Application Architecture Guidance

The .NET Team has been producing guidance for building microservices and container based applications, web applications and Xamarin.Forms mobile apps. You can use this guidance to help build your applications according to accepted industry patterns with .NET and C#. We have heard many requests for this guidance over the last year. We have recently made this guidance… Read more

Announcing EF Core 2.0 Preview 2

Today we are making Entity Framework Core 2.0 Preview 2 available. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core but can be used in multiple .NET platforms, including .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 or newer. Installing… Read more

.NET AI/ML themed blogs: Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning

⏱ Updated on June 28, 2017 🙌 Welcome to the first of  .NET’s new AI and Machine Learning themed blog entries! We have set up this space as a place to share and discuss the work we will be doing with AI and Machine Learning. Through a series of blog posts, we would like to… Read more

Announcing EF Core 2.0 Preview 1

This week we made Entity Framework Core 2.0 Preview 1 available. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. EF Core follows the same release cycle as .NET Core but can be used in multiple .NET platforms, including .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.6 or newer. Installing… Read more